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Doncaster, Oct. 4, 1806
My dear Sir,
I have so often had the gratification to find my opinions relative to plants sanctioned & supported by yours, that I do not feel satisfied, when you disagree with me, & I therefore trouble you with another letter on the subject of my last. I am not by any means prepared to admit that, relatively to plants, there is any Climate in which there exists little variation between the temperature of the day & the night. If a thermometer be placed in a situation where not only itself but the ground & the objects near it, are effectually skreened from the sun, the variations of temperature indicated by it in some climates, will I know, be very small, at Madrass not above seven or eight degrees I have heard. But plant & the thermometer in